Target apparatus.



PATENTED JULY 5, 1904 J. L. MQOULLOUGH.

TARGET APPARATUS.

APPLICATION mm) mm. 31. 1902..

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PATENTBD JULY 5, 1904 Q J. L. McCITLLOUGH. TARGET APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAB-.31, 1902.

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Patented July 5, 1904.

JOHN L. MoOULLOUGH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSHINOR MATIO TARGET MACHINE COMPANY, OF NE YORK.

TARGET APPAFiATUS.

TO AUTO- SI ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,367, dated July 5, 1904.

Original application filed December 31, 1901, Serial No. 87,978. Divided and this application filed March 31, 1902. Serial To a, whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN L. MoCULLoUen, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn,connty of Kings,and

city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Target Apparatuses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, which is in the main a di- IO vision of my application upon which was based United States Patent No. 708,245, issued on September '2, 1902, relates to the target andthe means for indicating the point aimed at by the marksman on the face of the target.

In order to better illustrate the character and scope of the present invention, it may be well to explain that in my said pending application I have shown a firearm, or a device simulating a firearm, which is adapted when aimed at the target and moved about to cause an indicator back of the target to traverse the field of the latter, following closely the movements of the firearm in aiming, and

i 2 5 when the trigger of the latter is pulled or the firearm fired this has the effect to cause the indicator to advance to the face of the target at the point aimed at by the marks man and make a visible indication at that 4. is ageneral view, on a smallscale, showing the pistol or firearm, its mountings, and the target. Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively a face view and a sectional view of the target device on a larger scale than Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail View of the indicator mech anism of the target device. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view showing the circuit connections.

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of the indicating devices a fluid, and also illustrate in Fig. 7 an indicating means different fromthat of the principal views.

Referring primarily to the lirst live figures of the drawings, A designates (in Fig. 1) a casing of any kind; B, a pistol or lated firearm; O, a target as a other simuwhole; I), a

carrying-frame suspended from the target casing at D and provided wit h a counterweight E; F, an upright support for the lire arm, said support being mount versal oint G on the arms of t frame and provided with a bala ed by a unihe carry ngnc1ng-we1ght the movements of the firearm.

In the casing is a box or inclosure J, containing the coin vor choc-k controlled devices; K, ,CH'CHH) which, 111 one form or embodiment 01 is an electric the invention, operates the indicator; and L is the battery or generator wl the circuit. The circuit has a rich supplies break closed by an inserted coin or check, and the circuit is completed by pulling on the trigger of the firearm.

All of the above construction trated and described in my befo application.

is fully illusreancntioned The parts relating to the present invention will now be described.

1 is the target-box, and 2 is target mounted in the f rontof sai a penetrable d box. Pro ferably this target will have the usual circular The target is constructdrawn across eferenco and fer-ably there will be two layers or sets of these strands or threads, one'layer or set overly ing the other and the threads of one set crossing the other at an angle. the outer layer of strands bemg at 2 to show the layer behind.

Fig. 2 shows the construction,

broken away The ob ect of this construction is to produce a target that may be easily penetrated by a rather blunt instrument, which will wedge apart the strands and protrude into view from the front without injury to the target, which latter will, however, present to the eye of the marksman the appearance of a solid and impenetrable surface. The threads or strands used may be white and the sections or Zones of the target be indicated by dark circles marked thereon.

Within the target'box 1 behind the target 2 is a solenoid-indicator, mounted on the upright branch of the somewhat L-shaped arm I, which is secured to the support F of the firearm. This indicating device, which is represented in detail in Fig. 4, comprises a solenoid 3, the sliding core A of which is the indicator. This indicator 4: has a conical tip (which may be blackened) and this tip occupies normally a position near to and back of the target 2. If the solenoid be energized by sending a current through its coil, the indicator 4 will be driven out through the target, so that its blackened tip appears to the marksman on the outer face thereof. When the current ceases to flow, a suitable spring 5 retracts the indicator. To prevent the in dicator from being shifted by handling the firearm during the momentary engagement of the threads of the target by the point of the indicator, an electromagnet 6 is slidably mounted in a bearing 7 on the upper end of the arm I, and its pole-face 6, which is convex, normally plays in close proximity to the inner concave face of an iron plate 8, fixed in the target-box. The coils of the magnet 6 are in the same circuit with thesolenoidcoils, and when excited its pole-face moves instantly into contact with the face of the plate 8, thus offering considerable resistance to movement. A spring 9 withdraws the pole of the magnet out of rubbing contact with the plate 8 when the circuit through the magnet is broken.

Fig. 5 is designed merely to show the circuits. hen a coin 0 is inserted so as to close a break in the circuit K and the trigger of the firearm B is pulled, this pull has the eflect to complete the circuit at (Z through the solenoid and locking-magnet at the target.

The plate 8 is made slightly concave, as the magnet moves in a slightly-curved path; but as the curvature is small the plate 8 might have a plane surface.

Preferably the target-box 1 will be inclosed in an outer housing or casing 10, and it will its upper end a box 11, in which is slidably mounted an indicator 4 attached to an .inclosed rubber bulb 12, to which a quantity of compressed air or other fluid under pressure is admitted at the proper time to advance the indicator. When the pressure is removed, a spring 5 retracts the indicator. The locking device comprises a slidable head 6 secured also to the bulb 12 and provided with a retracting-spring 9. The charge of compressed fluid is supplied through a pipe or tube 13, and exhausted through the same by suitable valve devices, not herein shown, but fully described in my said pending application.

Fig. 7 illustrates another form of the device wherein the bulb 12, when expanded, drives the flat blackened end of an indicator 1 up to the inner face of a translucent target 2*, so that said end or face may be visible through the target. In this construction no locking device is necessary, or at least essential.

I do not limit myself to the specific construction herein shown, as this may be varied considerably Without departing materially from the invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A target device comprising a stationary target, an indicator back of the target, means for moving the indicator over the field behind the target, and means for advancing the indicator into contact with the target for rendering it visible to the marksman.

2. A target device comprising a stationary target, an indicator back of the target, means for moving the indicator across the field back of the target, and means formoving the indicatorin a line perpendicular to the target, toward and from the same.

3. A target device comprising a stationary penetrable target, a pointed indicator back of the target, means for moving said indicator across the field back of the target, and means for moving said indicator into contact with said target in a line perpendicular to the same.

1. A target device comprising a penetrable target composed of non-interwoven threads or strands, and a movable, pointed indicator adapted to penetrate said target by displacing the said strands without injury to the target.

5. A target composed of non-interwoven strands or threads placed side by side and strained longitudinally.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 28th day of March, 1902, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN L. MGCULLOUGH.

Witnesses:

HENRY CoNNE'rT, PETER A. Ross. 

